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Auroras light up the Antarctic night
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NASA acquired July 15, 2012 On July 15, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of the aurora australis, or “southern lights,” over Antartica’s Queen Maud Land and the Princess Ragnhild Coast.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineAuroras light up the Antarctic night. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001594.
